[solaris]

Google has been very vocal on its stance for net neutrality. Now, Richard Whitt--Senior Policy Director for Google--announces that Google will take an even more active role in the debate by arming consumers with the tools to determine first-hand if their broadband connections are being monkeyed with by their ISPs:

"We're trying to develop tools, software tools...that allow people to detect what's happening with their broadband connections, so they can let [ISPs] know that they're not happy with what they're getting -- that they think certain services are being tampered with," Google senior policy director Richard Whitt said this morning during a panel discussion at Santa Clara University, an hour south of San Francisco.

Full story here: Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector - HotHardware

And more here: George Ou - Technology for mortals > Home

[vikulenka]

Good people, Google. I tried to post an image "Google rocks!" written in "google font", but for some reason uploading it doesn't work

[approaching oblivion]

I'll use it. I have Comcast and I read that Comcast is one of the companies that plan on slowing down the connections of their high users. If my connection is slow, I'd love to be able to tell if it's my ISP doing it on purpose.

[Frunze]

Originally Posted by approaching oblivion

I'll use it. I have Comcast and I read that Comcast is one of the companies that plan on slowing down the connections of their high users. If my connection is slow, I'd love to be able to tell if it's my ISP doing it on purpose.

Is that even legal? That's what Neflix got sued for, remember - they intentionally held up the sending of movies of high users while the low usage customers got their shipments right away - even if they were from the same household and ordered the same movie. They got caught and were forced to pay out to all the users (under class action).